The healthcare industry, including hospitals, ASCs and physicians’ offices, added 14,500 jobs from Dec. 2009-Jan. 2010, according to a news release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, ...

Not a funny year. The meltdown kept melting down, the collapsing markets kept collapsing, and the downsizing economy kept downsizing. Texas fared better than most states (see “California, disaster in” ...

My blogging colleague Jill Schlesinger has weighed in on today's jobs report, and finds the employment glass half-full. I'm not going to poke any holes in what she's pointed out, but delve into ...

After a depressing 2009, January's US retail sales figures were far from the beacon of light that many within the industry had hoped for. As assessed by the NPD Group last week, software sales for the ...

The brutal stretch of cold weather that slammed Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast early last month led to a cooler, and mostly drier, than normal January, the National Weather Service's Miami ...

Twelve U.S Olympic champions are introduced to the Spokane Arena during the final show of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. From right: Tara Lipinski, Kristi Yamaguchi, ...

Fiction Weeks on list1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. 33 2.The Girl Who Played ...